City Council Business Meeting on 2023-11-13 5:00 PM
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What is the purpose of the meeting and how are the council members introduced?
Yeah, quite. All right. Good evening everyone. Um I'm Bilows and I'm going to call this meeting of um the City Charlotte City Council Consent and Action Review to order. Um we'll begin with introductions. We will start with our city attorney.
Patrick Bacon, City Attorney.
Victoria Watlington,
District Three.
Dante Anderson, District One.
Ed Driggs, District Seven. Malcolm Graham, District Two. Marcus Jones, City Manager.
Philos, Mayor.
Braxton Winston, Mayor Pro Tem.
Good evening, Lawana Mayfield, Councilmember at Large. Tem
falar. Temple Lajmira at large and happy Diwali to everyone who is celebrating. Yes.
Stephanie Kelly, City Clerk. All right. Thank you very much for this. Um this meeting is an opportunity for us to address issues that are going to be coming forward in the next several weeks or months or the next month. And but if with this we also begin with the idea of what are there any questions on the consent agenda items. Um and so I Miss Harris is here. Are there there's a Report at your um seating place at your place for I think several questions that were asked and answered. So we'll go to um anyone that would like to have any item removed from the agenda or um for a separate vote or would like to make a comment on it. Miss
Mayfield.
Miss Mayfield. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I first want to step back and say welcome back to Miss Stephanie Kelly. We have missed you, so welcome back to us. Marie, thank you for getting a update. I still have A longer question for item number fourteen, which is on our business agenda, the Carolina Theater. So what I'm trying to figure out is we the city has an additional funding request out there. What is the additional funding request from the county when we look at the total amount of funds that we have already contributed? to the Carolina Theater and looking at The breakdown of the dollars Mecklenburg County has already committed four point two million. The city of Charlotte has already has four point five million contributed to this.
And this cor request this evening is for an additional two million. So I would like to know exactly how much is the county also being asked so that we don't have an imbalance with the city putting in almost seven million into this project and with that being very close to the corporations, foundations and the individual donations they have made. Thank you, Miss Mayfield. That's in a business item on our agenda. Um and we'll have I think surely have some remarks about it. Um, you know, it's really from my experience, the city and the county often have been asked for things to do and and I just met with the West Boulevard um coalition and you know we put in one point five million and the county put in three million.
So it's not always equal. So I think if we can have some examples of where we had equality of equal um equal contributions as well as those things that we have not and the reason why we can talk about that at the business meeting this afternoon this evening. So with that is there any other consent items for question? Or comment if we're done do I have a motion to approve consent items nineteen through forty one? So moved.
Second. I have
a motion and a second. Hearing no further discussion. All in favor of the motion, please raise your hands. Anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. So the next thing we're gonna do is turn it over to um the manager for review of the agenda items that we have that we're gonna be looking and previewing this m afternoon.
Thank you, Mayor and members of council. We have two items uh under the action review for tonight. One is the tree canon canopy update as well as the uh the bus operations contract update. I do believe there's a closed session item also, Mayor. So what what I'd like to do is just um make sure that you have enough time to have good discussions. We've set aside approximately ten mil ten minutes for the presentations related to each one of these and about an hour for the council discussions. I will tell you that during the manager's report, if um you need to pull the bus operations contract over to that, I think that would be fine.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What is the purpose of the meeting and how are the council members introduced?
1:13–13:16
2
How is the additional funding request for the Carolina Theater presented and debated?
13:16–30:28
3
What does the tree‑canopy analysis reveal and what actions are proposed?
30:28–1:17:32
4
How are the new bike‑lane enforcement rules and the bus‑operations contract discussed?
1:17:32–1:58:16
5
What authority does the council have to set truck parking fines and how high can they go?
1:58:16–2:13:51
6
How will the city enforce truck parking violations on state‑maintained roads?
2:13:51–2:44:40
7
What metrics and reporting will be used to evaluate the new fines and enforcement?
2:44:40–3:19:53
8
How is the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan being adopted and what are the next steps?
3:19:53–3:49:37
Speakers
8 identified
Vi Lyles 68 min
Malcolm Graham 19 min
Dimple Ajmera 12 min
Dante Anderson 12 min
Brent Cagle 11 min
Marcus Jones 10 min
Ed Driggs 8 min
James Mitchell 2 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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